10 Star Trek Characters We Had To Wait Years To See Again
6. Armus And Friends
Kira, Quark, Okona, Archonians, Sonya Gomez, Tom Paris... the list of reappearances in Lower Decks is almost as long as its list of episodes. One that does require its own entry on the list due to the nature of that character's first appearance in 1988.
The humanoid oil slick Armus stands out amongst the villains of TNG's first season purely on the basis that it killed Tasha Yar in Skin of Evil.
After taking a fatal and unprovoked swipe at Lieutenant Yar, Armus would also manage to gobble up and spit out Commander Riker with Frakes later recalling that LeVar Burton was concrete on the fact that he would NOT have allowed himself to be covered head to toe in black goop.
Left alone on the desolate Vagra II, Lower Decks would drop one of its best closing scenes thanks to Mariner finding a submanifold casting stone during anomaly consolidation day. This allows the Lower Deckers to "throw" their voices across the galaxy and prank call the lonely skin of evil who is more like a puddle of sh*t.
The more adult-orientated animation even managed to work in a visual reference to Those Old Scientists (TOS) with TAS Kirk and Spock onscreen after 17 years.